It's majority vote, not hostile occupation. The YES votes aren't just from NOVA and the larger cities. Virginia redistricting referendum results where I live in Central Virginia:
Albemarle County (pop. 115,000; 40% rural residents): 65% YES
City of Charlottesville (pop. 47,000): 85% YES
Fairfax tax revenue pays for every one of those rural counties' governmental functions.
Buh-bye, John McGuire! 😝
Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer.
Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul.
Oh well. Good job Virginia!!
JetBlue deletes tweet after they were accused of surveillance pricing ✈️
A company rep says the post was an 'error'
Fascists and secessionists are FINE, but we draw the line at people advocating for higher taxes on billionaires and universal healthcare. 🙄
You'd think VDARE's donors would be grateful to NY AG James for exposing VDARE's misuse of funds. Why does VDARE and VDARE's donors fear their names being made public? 🤨
New: Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE face discovery in the lawsuit issued by the NY AG.
This could expose the names of white nationalist donors and activists who’ve stayed in the shadows for years:
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1777 has also entered the chat.
The U.S. probably owes its independence in part to the fact that a certain General George Washington had his troops inoculated against smallpox.
Chris Rufo was also getting paid by Hungary.
This is a war based on lies
Can we review Marbury v. Madison please?
Things are getting so bad with the Iran war, he’s going to wish the Epstein files and Putin’s pee tape get released
Chip Roy’s “Mamdani Act” would deport migrants for Marxist or Islamist beliefs. No judicial review. He names NYC’s socialist mayor as proof.
After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.
[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".
“For Black Catholics, Pope Leo’s visit to the Muxima shrine is an important moment of healing,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at the Koch Center, Oxford University.
Good to see @antheabutler.bsky.social quoted in this informative @apnews.com piece.
And in some instances, these Confederate foragers abducted free black residents of Pennsylvania and sold them into slavery. John Mosby of Charlottesville (the “Gray Ghost”) commanded one of these cavalry raiding parties. According to Wikipedia, his name was removed from the National Ranger Memorial.
Fun fact: the confederates were not as frequently outnumbered as is typically understood in battles. They only appear that way because a huge chunk of their army logistics were run by slaves, who aren't counted when summing up troops.
He couldn't be shamed about killing tens of thousands of Palestinian children, but had to apologize to a statue of Jesus. If it were in a novel, you'd almost feel bad for the author's earnestness.
Nevermind lmao the defending champ left everyone in the dust on mile 22 and she's gonna win easily.
Ice agents arresting Charlottesville residents on morning of 4/20
🚨verified ICE arrests in Charlottesville 8:30 this morning 4/20
In a nutshell. 😊
In March the Vatican's International Theological Commission published a brick of a document, Latin title and everything, critiquing looksmaxxers, tradwives, and tech bros who perform Catholicism online but have a shallow engagement with it, more or less telling them to log off and talk to people.
That’s my understanding. I used the term philistine to dismiss people who lack intellectual curiosity. I’ve purged it and “pagan” from my vocabulary because I’m a religious studies scholar and don’t want to repeat a dominant religion’s pejorative vs. supposedly more rustic religious observances.
Paywalled🫤
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Spanish PM Sánchez (Socialist Party) announces that this Tuesday the Spanish Government will bring to Europe the proposal that the European Union break its association agreement with Israel: "That government that violates International Law cannot be a partner of the European Union"
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese
Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.
Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.
I was thinking about this during a Good Friday liturgy a few weeks ago: a specific group of ancient Jewish leaders is depicted as an enemy to Jesus and his followers, and consequently, Christians’ only conception of “Pharisees” is as a rigid conniving cabal. It’s a harmful damaging image.
